Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart is testing home grocery delivery in San Jose, Calif., as the world’s largest retailer ratchets up competition with online retailer Amazon.com. With the new “Walmart To Go,” customers can order up groceries, health and beauty products such as soap, shampoo and over-the-counter medicines, and household supplies like paper towels and laundry detergent […]
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Posted in, National, Southeast
Georgia Legislature Sends Booze Bill to Governor
After five years of heated lobbying that pitted grocery and convenience stores against preachers, the Georgia General Assembly gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that could lead to Sunday package sales, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Governor Nathan Deal has already said he will sign Senate Bill 10, which the House approved Tuesday by a vote […]
Posted in, California Perspective, West
An Open Letter to Gov. Brown from the State’s Grocery Community
With California facing the challenge of a fiscal crisis larger than any in recent memory, state legislators, officials and the governor will have to make tough decisions to eliminate a near-$26 billion shortfall in the state budget. California’s grocery industry will be part of this process, but shouldn’t shoulder an unfair portion of the solution. […]
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Spinach Warning from Fresh Express
Fresh Express said April 5 that it is voluntarily recalling 2,939 cases of 9-oz. bagged spinach, reports the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. The Salinas company said the recall is “out of an abundance of caution due to a positive result for salmonella from random sample testing.” The recalled product has product codes starting with […]
Posted in, Corporate Store News, Southwest
Lowe’s acquires Super S Foods
by Rita Arnst Pay and Save Inc., dba Lowe’s from Littlefield, Texas, acquired the Super S Foods chain today. “The stores will be operated as Super S Foods/Lowe’s for a while. Nothing is going to change,” said James Hanson with Super S Foods public relations. “We are not going to change the signs initially, but […]
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Coca-Cola Pledges Financial Aid to Japan
The Coca-Cola Co. system has pledged $7.3 million to help Japan as it continues to confront the aftermath of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said the $7.3 million in cash and product donations will go to the relief effort and includes more than 7 million bottles of needed […]
Posted in, Beverage News, National
US Tops France as Wine Sipping Leader
According to a report in the San Francisco Business Times, the United States supplanted France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation in 2010, according to wine industry consultants Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, by roughly 330 million cases to France’s 320.6 million. Of course, the United States’ population dwarfs that of France, so “per capita, they’re […]
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US Wholesale Inflation Surged in February
According to a report on MSNBC.com, wholesale prices surged last month at their fastest pace in just over 1-1/2 years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame. The Labor Department said today that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally […]
Posted in, Another Side, National
Another Side: 4+1=48
Numbers which don’t add up? They do if you are using Shelby math. While some periodicals have been subtracting, we have been adding. Since the first Southeast issue (1967) to the Southwest (1976), we have added The Shelby Report of the West (2008), The Shelby Report of the Midwest (2009), and now The Shelby Report […]